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Cox Morton House

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Built
  
1902

Architectural style
  
American Four Square

NRHP Reference #
  
84000399

Area
  
1 ha

Architect
  
Calderwood,Andrew

MPS
  
South Hills MRA

Opened
  
1902

Added to NRHP
  
26 October 1984

Cox-Morton House

Location
  
Similar
  
MacFarland House, Craik‑Patton House, Edgewood Historic District, East End Historic District, Garnet High School

Cox-Morton House, also known as Home Hall, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, for Frank Cox, secretary of Republic Coal Co., the West Virginia Colliery Co., and the Carbon Coal Co. He was known in West Virginia as the "Great Wildcatter". His daughter Alice Boyd Cox married James Morton of the Morton Coal Co. It is an American Foursquare-style house. It features a ballustrated terrace around two sides of the house and a doric portico, added in the 1920s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the South Hills Multiple Resource Area.

References

Cox-Morton House Wikipedia